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Tony Worobiec FRPS: Tony studied Fine Art at The University of Newcastle and spent 18 years as head of a large design faculty in Dorset. He has won numerous awards for photography in the UK and internationally, and has work exhibited in The London Barbican Gallery, The Independent Photographers Gallery, The Fox Talbot Museum and Bradford’s Nation Museum of Photography. Tony has written over 120 articles for photographic magazines both here in the UK, in America and Germany. His most prestigious project to date resulted in “Ghosts in the Wilderness; Abandoned America”. This iconic book is often quoted by colleges and universities as the definitive documentary on the abandoned communities of the American High Plains. A follow-up book “Fragments of an American Dream” was published in 2015. His work is in the permanent collections of The Royal Photographic Society.

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The Art of Compositon: this presentation is not bound by “rules” but is an encouragement to understand that other practitioners of the visual arts such as artists, graphic designers, film-makers etc rely on other more diverse strategies for designing their images. In this presentation we will consider these, and show how they can be applied to our own personal photography. This will be illustrated by a wide variety of Tony’s images; examples shown above. A unique opportunity to explore composition and become more adventurous. Especially useful for those embarking on an RPS distinction. Tony has published a book on this subject

Janey Devine FRPS: having had a career in IT, Janey was an early convert to digital photography, and bought one of the first digital cameras in 1998. Experimenting with a number of techniques she strived to produce an “impression” of the landscape, and was awarded her Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2008 with a panel of images taken in East Anglia. Her work though is now more focussed on documentary projects, in particular locally based long term projects. Janey was invited to join the Arena Group of photographers in 2016 and is also a member of the Focus Group.

Presentation: recently Janey has been working on a long term documentary project looking at some of the key issues affecting our city centres today. She will explain how the project developed, and how some decisions led her to rethink where the project was going. She will also talk about some of the challenges of taking environmental portraits, and how her photographic style has developed over the course of the project. Janey will also show some images from recent trips to the USA, and look at various different ways of sharing travel photography. Producing books is an important part of Janey’s work, and she will show a number examples of producing work in book format.

Janey is an exceptional photographer with an unusual style. An opportunity to learn about photography very different from the typical club scene.